Customer angry because payment was sent to the affiliate...

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Hi, I'm promoting a rapbank product so I got a commission paid to my paypal account...but a customer opened a paypal dispute saying:

I bought a product. The payment was made but I received a message that there was a problem with the payment.

I then paid yet again and received the same message. I then contacted the email address on the webpage and had a reply from the vendor. He stated that he had not received any payments from me.

When I checked my PayPal account I found that my payments had been made to the wrong person and that vendor said this person was not on his list of resellers. the vendor at the above email address then sent me the product free of charge.

So the situation now is that the person subject to this dispute is not a legal reseller for the product and has my money.

Can I have my money back please? Thanks

Then I answered:

Payment has been made to the affiliate that refered you to the product.

and the buyer answered:

"the vendor states that he is the original author of the product, it's his video and his 'contact us' email address. He states that you are not authorised to sell his product."

but that's not true...anybody can promote that rapbank product....I said to the customer that he also can get an affiliate link...and I send him the url where he can get the affiliate link...let's see what he answers now...




ps

Last days many customers are opening paypal disputes because they are not getting download links from the rapbank products I'm promoting...that wasnt happening some time ago...I don't think is good for me to have so many paypal disputes...

I thought paypal was sending the download link every time to the customer...
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  • The only way you can resolve this is by contacting the affiliate and raising a dispute through PayPal. Ultimately though (and this has happened to me a number of times) you're just going to end up refunding this out of your own pocket or having a very unhappy customer ... your call.

    This issue is one of the main things I set out to fix in DigiResults.com

    Having a rotating commission system seems to confuse a small (but notable) group of customers and result in a lot of support headaches. Affiliates get contacted for support because customers think that's who they bought from. Vendors just don't have enough control over the refund process (I'm not talking about outright fraud here, just affiliates who don't answer email for several days or whatever).
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  • Paypal doesnt send download links mate... just the payments.

    You might like to contact Erin or use his (RAPBank) HelpDesk >>
    along with all your information...

    Erin (or his staff) might be able to help you out
    and find out who the vendor is and if there's any issues with the scripts etc.

    Erins a great guy and would be more than willing to help you out.

    all the best,

    - aj
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    • that's what I don't like about RAP if the payment has been made to the affiliate and then the purchaser refunds the affiliate has to make the payment to the purchaser.
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  • Wow. What a gnarly thread. So who is right? And why has it resulted in a dispute?
  • This is probably the result of signing up for the program using a Paypal email address that is not your primary address with them. RAP treats that as a fraudulent sale, and won't send the customer to the download page or deliver the email with the link.

    This was probably a good idea years ago. Given the amount of trojans that grab email addresses from the infected machine and send spam to every one of them, it's now just an ill-advised feature.

    If the merchant admits to having said that you're not authorized to sell the product, despite having listed it, I would immediately report them to RAPbank. They're a hazard.


    Paul
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    • They have the affiliate program listed on rapbank...so anyone can get an affiliate link...I dont understand why the vendor gave that answer to the buyer...also might be that the buyer is not telling the whole truth...we ll see...

      regarding paypal disputes I hadnt problems for weeks...except the last two days...and i have always used the same paypal adress...
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